Happy 80th

On June 3 my Grandma Dolores turned 80! Everyone joined in for cake and ice cream. It was a lot of fun to see all the fam. Most of whom I haven't seen in a really long time.  I love my Grandma so much. I have so many fun memories of her. She always has an incredible garden. She knows just about every plant imaginable just by looking at it. She can tell you where to plant it and how to take care of it. She is also an incredible cook. She makes the best cobbler in the entire world! We could always count on Grandma to come to everything and anything we were involved in growing up. She never missed a football game, a dance performance or a graduation. She is just such an incredible woman! I love you Grandma and wish you a very happy birthday!

Riley with Great Grandma

Brady and Lauren tasting the candles.

Riley's Fund

Our biggest challenge recently has been transporting Riley. It is becoming increasingly more difficult to take him places. We can not fit his stroller in our car and because he has to lay flat in the back seat I can hardly get him in and out because of his size. We are in great need of new transportation for him that he can ride in his stroller. We are happy to announce a website has been set up for Riley to help fund a van for him.
www.getrileysride.org
I have also placed a link to the site in the side bar. If you wish to donate there is a pay pal button on the website. If we could get 1000 people to donate $20 there would be enough for the van and the handicap accessaries. Tell everyone to come aboard and help GET RILEY'S RIDE!
This website was made possible by an old friend from High School, Jordan, who heard about Riley. Thanks for all your work.

Updates Galore

So I ran out of storage space on google so I couldn't post any more pictures and I finally forked out the $5 to buy more storage. So here are a bunch of updates. 

I'll start first with Riley standing. After months of battling with insurance we finally got it approved. In the end it was kind of a good thing that it wasn't approved at first because the original stander we order would have been too small by the time we got it so when it was denied we were able submit for a bigger one. At first he lasted about 15 minutes, and then 30 min and then on Tuesday he was in there for 45 min. while watching Seseme Street. That's the one thing we've learned about Riley and his therapies is that if you distract him with something he likes he doesn't notice he's actually working at something.







The next update is last Saturday we took Riley to the zoo. Riley was more interested in the people and kids around him than looking at the actual animals. I think the animal he was most interested in looking at were the giraffes only because they were right there with out any glass to peer through

We saw some animals that we've never been able to see before...we saw most of the big cats including the tiger.

We also got a chance to experience a rare siting of a peacock showing off it's feathers.  The zoo keeper said that they usually never just randomly show off their feathers.

Of course the best animals at the zoo are the babies. These babies were born last year and so I was expecting them to be bigger but they still looked so small

  Riley's favorite attraction at the zoo is the carousel.

We couldn't get a decent face out of Riley all day long so here are the many faces of Riley at the zoo.

  At the end of the day I think it was a successful zoo trip.

After the zoo trip we stopped up at PCMC to say hi to Lauren. She was kind of having a hard day that day but I think she was excited to see Riley. She is home now and doing well. She goes back next week to start her chemo therapy. She can have her treatment as an outpatient. It will be hard for her to have to keep going back, but I think it will be good because she won't be stuck in the hospital the whole time.

Well, I think that it is for the giant post. Hopefully I can keep up with the updates now that I have added more memory to my files.